[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #4445] Configure does not honor enable-afalgeng

[Matt Caswell]

On 18/03/16 22:59, Kurt Roeckx via RT wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 01:18:04PM +0000, Matt Caswell wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 18/03/16 12:52, noloader at gmail.com via RT wrote:
>>> I've configured with:
>>>
>>>     ./config enable-afalgeng
>>>
>>> When I run the self tests, I see:
>>>
>>>   ../test/recipes/30-test_afalg.t ........... skipped: test_afalg not
>>> supported for this build
>>
>> You should not need to use enable-afalgeng at all. It is enabled by
>> default unless for some reason it is not supported by your system.
>> Reasons that it might not be supported:
>>
>> - You are not running Linux
>> - You are not building "shared" or have otherwise disabled dynamic-engines
>> - uname reports a kernel version less than 4.1.0
>> - Your linux headers are less than 4.1.0
> 
> Please note that the kernel something is build on might not be the
> same as it's going to run on, so checking the current running
> kernel version doesn't make sense for compiling it.  Is there some
> runtime detection of support in the kernel?

Yes. There is runtime detection too.

Matt